Black Saturday bushfire
- Created by: georginaharden
- Created on: 22-12-17 13:06
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- Black Saturday Bushfire
- Causes
- Started we think because of power lines falling or banging together
- Heatwave had hit a week before the fire which caused high pressure
- Was dry 60mph wind blowing
- Impacts
- 173 deaths
- 141 injured
- 22 major burns
- Destroyed over 2030 houses and 1400 more structures
- 1180 livestock died
- Cost is $4.4 billion
- Many had no power for a few days
- Psychological impact
- Higher levels of CO2
- Responses
- 500 firefighters tried to control the fire
- Communication was poor which lead to many deaths
- Care packs given out
- Making sure power lines were updated to be more safe
- Causes
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